Legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay will replace the injured Lasith Malinga in Sri Lanka's squad for the ongoing ICC World Twenty20.

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Press Trust of India

Colombo

March 19, 2016

UPDATED: March 19, 2016 17:13 IST

Legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay will replace the injured Lasith Malinga in Sri Lanka's squad for the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 in India.

Mohan de Silva, the Sri Lanka Cricket vice-President, said the 26-year-old Vandersay will depart at the earliest to join the team.

Malinga has been forced out due to a nagging knee injury. Vandersay was in the original World T20 squad but was overlooked by the current selection panel headed by Aravinda de Silva. (Knee injury forces Malinga out of World T20 )

The original squad was picked by the previous panel headed by Kapila Wijegoonawardena.

Vandersay has played in just four T20 internationals previously, the last of which was in New Zealand in January.

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